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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Man with Autism Becomes First Student at Cal Western to Pass Bar Exam



Erik Weber continues to prove people wrong.

In May, he became the first student with autism not only to graduate from Cal Western School of Law, but the first to pass the bar exam too. He did it on his first try.

“When I first opened it up on May 15th, I closed it down and checked it again to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating,” Erik said.

He was at Starbucks checking his score on his laptop.

“When I found out, I really did pass my keyboard got wet with tears of joy,” Erik said.

The road to becoming a lawyer wasn’t an easy one. Erik was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. When he was 5, doctors told his parents his autism was so severe, he’d have to be institutionalized the rest of his life.

Sandi Weber, Erik’s mother, refused to put her son in a home.

“You have to grieve the loss of the perfect child. What you thought you were going to have, is not going to be the same,” she said.


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